I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
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Government is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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